2025 CALENDAR COMPETITION NOW OPEN!
Our highly anticipated annual Surf Coast photo competition is back for a sixth year!
Show us what you love about Torquay, Jan Juc, Bellbrae and Bells Beach: beaches, landscapes, surfing, sunrises, sunsets, nature…
13 amazing images will be handpicked to grace the pages of our coveted Surf Coast calendar. The winning photographers will also receive well-deserved recognition through photo credits, along with extensive exposure on social media, media coverage, and other promotional avenues.
Brace yourselves for an epic competition, as esteemed local surf photographer, Ed Sloane, takes on the tough task of judging the extraordinary entries once again
It’s not just the judges who have a say! The public will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite photo from the selection of winners. The winner of the ‘crowd favourite award’ will be treated to a delectable dinner for two at the fabulous local restaurant, The Kyn.
And that’s not all – anyone who votes will automatically enter a draw to win a stunning framed print of their choice AND an exclusive invite to the highly anticipated calendar launch party.
As always, we’ll be giving out the calendars to local homes and businesses on the Surf Coast. So keep your eyes peeled from early December.
COMPETITION TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This competition is delivered by Natural Real Estate. By entering the competition, entrants agree to these terms and conditions of entry:
- The competition opens Wednesday 7 August 2024 and closes Wednesday 25 September 2024 at 11.59pm AEST.
- Photographs entered in the competition must depict locations from within the 3228 postcode: Torquay, Jan Juc, Bellbrae and Bells Beach.
- Photographs must have been taken by the entrant submitting them.
- Each entrant may submit as many entries into the competition as they wish, however only two photographs per person can be included in the final calendar (12 months and 1 cover).
- Entrants aged less than 18 years need parental or guardian permission to enter.
- Photographs may be taken digitally, using film or on phone cameras provided they are in landscape format and of print quality at A4 size.
- Photographs must be submitted in colour.
- Low-resolution photos, plus the photo location, your name, email, and phone number, to be emailed to hello@naturalre.com.au.
- Photographs may be submitted in a range of digital formats. For example: JPEG, TIFF.
- Shortlisted photographers will be requested to provide high resolution files, suitable for print quality with a minimum of 300 DPI.
- Photographs may be edited to adjust “errors” in composition, exposure, brightness and contrast, however content should not be removed, added, altered or distorted beyond the truth of the original photograph.
- Alterations permitted in the competition include, but are not limited to: Cropping; Rotation, for example: to straighten a crooked horizon; Adjustments to brightness and contrast; Minimal sharpening and softening.
- Files on DVD, CD or USB will not be accepted. Faxed or emailed entries will not be accepted. Contact us if you need help submitting your entry.
- Entrants retain the copyright of any images submitted, however Natural Real Estate reserves the right to exhibit and publish all entries within the context of the competition on our website, social media accounts and promotion generally. By entering the competition, entrants authorise Natural Real Estate to publish any images on its promotional material, both in print and electronically, and to exhibit images. In all such cases, every reasonable effort will be made to acknowledge the source of the photograph/s. Natural Real Estate will also place the images in their image library for ongoing use and promotion.
- The shortlisted judging will be conducted by a panel. An independent judge will then narrow down the final 13 images to be included in the calendar. Winners will be contacted via email or phone.
- Up to 13 winners will be selected. Winners will receive their photograph published in the 2025 Natural Real Estate calendar with a photo credit.
- The winners agree to participate, as required, in promotional activities relating to the competition, including but not limited to, being interviewed and photographed. The winners agree to grant Natural Real Estate a perpetual and non-exclusive licence to use such footage and photographs in all media and promotion.